From: Mike Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2002-04-03T09:50:59+09:00
Subject: RE: seeking to understand...

*chuckle*

I guess there are as many sets of likes/dislikes as people.  I don't know enough
Ruby to say whether I like it or not, but I came from C/Perl/C++/Java, in that
order, and love them all.

Never did anything with python, but was about to give it a go when I stumbled
along ruby.

Ok, so I'm a language wh___. =)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: QUEISSER,ANDREW (HP-Corvallis,ex1) [mailto:andrew_queisser@hp.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 1:41 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: RE: seeking to understand...
>
>
> I can't quite agree with the Perl->Ruby path either. I'm
> from a pure C++ background, hate Perl, hate VB (out of
> principle), neutral about Java, didn't like the self thing
> and the indentation about Python.
>
> Love Ruby, finally a rapid development language like
> SmallTalk with a friendly syntax.
>
> Andrew Queisser
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: james@rubyxml.com [mailto:james@rubyxml.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 10:23 AM
> > To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> > Subject: RE: seeking to understand...
> >
> >
> > > In my opinion, if you like Perl, you'll love Ruby. But if
> > you come from a
> > > background of VB or Java, you will probably prefer Python.
> >
> > How weird.  I come from a VB/Java/Perl background.  You're
> > right in that
> > one can think of Ruby as a better Perl (Perl 6, right? ;) ),
> > but VB and
> > Java have too many restrictions for my taste.
> >
> > Python's forced-indentation left a bad taste in my mouth, so
> > I never got
> > too excited about it.  Ruby is just so much more fluid.  You
> > get more OO
> > than Java, and the immediate code-and-run gratification of the VB IDE.
> >
> >
> > James
> >
> > >
> > > My $0.02,
> > > Barron
> >


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